authouressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

authouress (plural authouresses)

1. Obsolete form of authoress.
   • 1753, Samuel Johnson quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson, page #201:

     The part which depends on the imagination is very well supplied, as you will find when you read the paper ; for descriptions of life, there is now a treaty almost made with an authour and an authouress ; and the province of criticism and literature they are very desirous to assign to the commentator on Virgil.